Apple Cinema Tools 3 User Manual
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Chapter 4
Creating and Using a Cinema Tools Database
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A Potential Database Shortcut for Camera-Roll Transfers
If you used a camera-roll transfer and need to manually create your database, you may
be able to save time by creating one database record per camera roll, depending on
whether or not the edge code number-to-timecode relationship is continuous for each
camera-roll transfer.
If the edge code number-to-timecode relationship is continuous on each roll:
If the edge code number-to-timecode relationship is continuous on each camera roll,
you can create one database record per camera roll, and Cinema Tools can use the
timecode-based method of locating database records in order to create film lists. In this
case, each camera roll acts as one source clip.
As long you create an accurate database record for the camera roll, Cinema Tools will
be able to accurately create film lists. However, if you also connect the source clips to
the database records, you are providing extra insurance that the match back will go
smoothly even if there is a timecode error. See “
Workflow for a Camera-Roll Transfer
How Cinema Tools Creates Film Lists
page 213 for more information.
Important:
There is an exception to the timecode-based method of locating database
records for film lists. If you conform your clips from 25 fps to 24 fps, the timecode in the
editing system is adjusted for the new frame rate, which means that Cinema Tools will
not be able use the timecode-based method of film list generation. You will therefore
need to create separate database records for each source clip and connect those clips
to their records. (Note that the timecode-based method can be used after clips are
reverse-telecined.)
Even if you have a continuous edge code number-to-timecode relationship, you may
want to take the time to create database records for each source clip for your own
organizational and tracking purposes. For example:
 A database can be used to cross-check which take is on which sound roll and which
lab roll contains a negative you need.
 You may want to have records for each clip so that you can add notes about
different clips.
 Database records provide a poster frame of each clip for quick visual reference, and
you can access and play the whole clip from the database.
If the edge code number-to-timecode relationship is noncontinuous on each roll:
When the edge code number-to-timecode relationship is noncontinuous, you need to
create separate database records for each clip and connect those clips to their records.
Each database record must include the key number or ink number of the first frame of
the associated source clip, so that Cinema Tools can adequately track the edge code
number-to-timecode relationships throughout your sequence.
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